Few companies have had the success that Toyota Motor Corporation has experienced over the past 70 years. Many give credit for Toyota's success to the company's famous Toyota Production System. Companies outside of Toyota have tried to implement versions of Toyota's system as Lean production; however, few companies have experienced the success of Toyota, and none have experienced Toyota's sustained success. In 2001, Toyota released a publication entitled The Toyota Way 2001 as a set of globalized standards of the culture that drives the success of the Toyota Production System.,This research examines the effect of the Toyota Way on the implementation of Lean production outside of Toyota. A survey was developed and a study was performed on a sample of 349 participants with Lean experience. Structural equation modeling was used to test the relationship between the Toyota Way culture, Lean production, and achieving the desired Lean production system results.,The results of this research discovered that the existence of the Toyota Way culture has a significant and positive mediating effect on a Lean production system achieving the desired Lean results.,This research created a validated survey instrument that can be used to evaluate and understand the status of a Lean implementation initiative based upon employee perception. The results of this study support assertions made by Lean practitioners and previous research stating that culture affects the level of success of Lean production system implementation. While this may not seem like breaking news, prior to this study no statistically validated research supporting such an assertion could be found. Furthermore, this research defines culture very specifically as the Toyota Way culture as outlined in The Toyota Way 2001.

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开发精益评估工具并从员工感知中衡量文化的影响

在过去的 70 年中，很少有公司能像丰田汽车公司那样取得成功。许多人将丰田的成功归功于该公司著名的丰田生产系统。丰田以外的公司试图将丰田系统的版本实施为精益生产；然而，很少有公司经历过丰田的成功，也没有一家公司经历过丰田的持续成功。2001 年，丰田发布了题为《2001 年丰田方式》的出版物，作为推动丰田生产系统成功的一套全球化文化标准。本研究考察了丰田方式对丰田以外实施精益生产的影响. 制定了一项调查并对 349 名具有精益经验的参与者样本进行了研究。结构方程模型被用来检验丰田模式文化、精益生产和实现理想的精益生产系统结果之间的关系。,本研究结果发现丰田模式文化的存在对精益生产有显着的正向中介作用。一个精益生产系统实现了预期的精益结果。,这项研究创建了一个经过验证的调查工具，可用于根据员工的看法评估和了解精益实施计划的状态。本研究的结果支持精益从业者的断言和先前的研究，即文化影响精益生产系统实施的成功水平。虽然这看起来不像是突发新闻，在这项研究之前，没有找到支持这种断言的经过统计验证的研究。此外，这项研究将文化非常具体地定义为丰田方式 2001 中概述的丰田方式文化。